Recovery of other seriousnesses, from Jeff Rice’s
"Serious Bloggers"
in today’s Inside Higher Ed:

Lost in this seriousness are a number of quite amazing things blogging has
provided writers: ability to create discourse in widely accessed, public
venues, ease of online publishing, ability to write daily to a networked
space, ability to archive one’s writing, ability to interlink writing spaces,
ability to respond to other writers quickly, etc.

With the time you saved on this short entry, you should go read the whole
thing.